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with Anu Garg

hobbledehoy

PRONUNCIATION:

(HOB-uhl-dee-hoy)

MEANING:

noun: An awkward young fellow.

ETYMOLOGY:

Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1540.

USAGE:

"Burleigh's breathless accounts of the many figures of the British
peerage in the story read as though written by some overawed
hobbledehoy, someone who fingers the noblemen's lamé draperies in
envious amazement and wonders how much they would go for at Wal-Mart."
Simon Winchester; 'The Nation's Attic'; The Boston Globe; Jan 11, 2004.